req.setNewStringVariable("TYPE",
TransformOptions.COLLECTION_TYPE);
req.setNewStringVariable("PATTERN", "[,\\s]+");
req.setOptions(requestOptions);
ResultSequence res = session.submitRequest(req);
// like a Pascal string, the first item will be the count
total = ((XSInteger) res.next().getItem()).asPrimitiveInt();
logger.info("expecting total " + total);
if (0 == total) {